"Actors Ready… Actors Go"
Last night was the final tech rehearsal ("q2q") for Their Town, followed by the dress rehearsal - the first time I'd really seen it all the way through without any interruptions. Rev. Janet Edwards joined me, in preparation for our conversation/talkback following the performance on June 17.
Tech rehearsals tend to be kind of boring - you just skip from lighting cue to sound cue or whatever, not running complete scenes. But still, there's something about the stage manager calling "Actors ready…actors go" that is at heart pretty exciting. The magic of theater and all that. There was lots of discussion about where to find the bush that is needed for the park scenes, with Dave, the stage manager, trying (unsuccessfully) to sell me on a large potted ficus he found in the lobby. I have caved on other small things, but I just can't give up the bush.
We got a nice preview in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning, from Christopher Rawson - check it out.
A journal about my play "Their Town," a gay-themed comedy inspired by the classic "Our Town"
-Thornton Wilder, Our Town
About the Playwright
Paula Martinac is the author of three published novels - Chicken, Home Movies, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Out of Time - and has also published three nonfiction books on lesbian and gay culture and politics, including The Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage. Her plays have been produced by Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, Ganymede Arts Festival, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, and Womenscene.
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